# Drumbad, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killoe, barony of Longford, Co. Longford; in Irish Droim Bada. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 951,011 m² (95.1 ha, 235 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,471 m² (1.95 ha, 4.81 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killoe, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/killoe.md - Barony: Longford - Electoral division: Ballinamuck West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 530 people lived in 210 households in the Ballinamuck West electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33104 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130466 - Centre: latitude 53.852241, longitude -7.743958 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbad, from 723 m² to 198,919 m² (19.89 ha, 49.15 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 61657: 198,919 m² (19.89 ha, 49.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61657.md - Parcel 73134: 127,485 m² (12.75 ha, 31.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/73134.md - Parcel 61652: 81,804 m² (8.18 ha, 20.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61652.md - Parcel 61458: 80,187 m² (8.02 ha, 19.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61458.md - Parcel 73132: 79,152 m² (7.92 ha, 19.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/73132.md - Parcel 61460: 70,368 m² (7.04 ha, 17.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61460.md - Parcel 61463: 44,626 m² (4.46 ha, 11.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61463.md - Parcel 61653: 40,583 m² (4.06 ha, 10.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61653.md - Parcel 73131: 40,436 m² (4.04 ha, 9.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/73131.md - Parcel 61656: 37,638 m² (3.76 ha, 9.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61656.md - Parcel 61651: 30,511 m² (3.05 ha, 7.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61651.md - Parcel 61659: 29,511 m² (2.95 ha, 7.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61659.md - Parcel 73129: 19,471 m² (1.95 ha, 4.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/73129.md - Parcel 73128: 16,275 m² (1.63 ha, 4.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/73128.md - Parcel 61461: 12,839 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61461.md - Parcel 71460: 10,555 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71460.md - Parcel 74683: 7,846 m² (0.78 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74683.md - Parcel 57939: 4,785 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57939.md - Parcel 61459: 3,974 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61459.md - Parcel 61462: 3,965 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61462.md - Parcel 52129: 3,787 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52129.md - Parcel 84130: 3,455 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/84130.md - Parcel 56380: 1,299 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/56380.md - Parcel 61813: 788 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/61813.md - Parcel 70724: 723 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/70724.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumbad in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 23 Mar 2022, Longford County Council 2268: Conditional. Permission. the proposed change of design of a previously permitted dormer type dwelling house that was granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL 21/48 to that of a new dormer type dwelling house design and ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2268/0 - 24 Feb 2021, Longford County Council 2148: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (a) Demolition of existing cottage type dwelling house with attic conversion, attached garage and outhouse. (b) removal of existing septic tank with soak pit. (c) the proposed construction of a dormer type dwelling house, entrance, boundary fence/wall, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter & ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2148/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumbad. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF005-004: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF005-004----. On a WSW-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.3m; H 1.2m) with a wide, deep, external fosse (Wth 4.4m; D 0.95m). A break (Wth 3.1m) in the bank at ESE with an accompanying causeway marks the original entrance. This rath, particularly the interior, is very densely overgrown with scrub rendering satisfactory inspection impossible. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 11 January 2012 Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumbad. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Drumbad, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumbad. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/drumbad.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/drumbad.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/drumbad.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumbad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Brocklagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/brocklagh.md - Cloncowley: https://everytownland.com/longford/cloncowley.md - Creelaghta: https://everytownland.com/longford/creelaghta.md - Crowdrumman: https://everytownland.com/longford/crowdrumman.md - Esker North: https://everytownland.com/longford/esker-north.md - Fardrumman: https://everytownland.com/longford/fardrumman.md - Monaduff: https://everytownland.com/longford/monaduff.md A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/drumbad - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/drumbad